South Korea · 37.57°N 126.98°E · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)
The best time to visit Seoul is May, when mean temperatures sit around 17 °C63 °F and rainfall averages 96 mm3.8 in a month.
The rainy season runs June to September, and July to August is a true monsoon — 304–312 mm12–12 in a month, peaking in July at 312 mm12 in. August is the hottest month at 25 °C77 °F and January the coldest at -3 °C27 °F; the mean stays below freezing from December to February.
Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 37.57, 126.98 — a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.
Good time to go for a Warm holiday: May.
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Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Seoul's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | Mean | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 240.9 | -326 | dry | too cold |
| February | 240.9 | -130 | dry | too cold |
| March | 481.9 | 540 | dry | too cold |
| April | 803.1 | 1253 | showers | too cold |
| May | 963.8 | 1762 | showers | good |
| June | 1365.4 | 2170 | rainy | too rainy |
| July | 31212 | 2576 | monsoon | too hot |
| August | 30412 | 2577 | monsoon | too hot |
| September | 1526.0 | 2068 | rainy | too rainy |
| October | 562.2 | 1456 | dry | too cold |
| November | 481.9 | 643 | dry | too cold |
| December | 240.9 | 031 | dry | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers | May |
| Tropical | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoon | |
| Beach | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | mean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoon | March to April and October to November |
| Snow | mean below 0 °C32 °F, any rain | December to February |
Yes. The rainy season runs June to September, and July to August is a true monsoon — 304–312 mm12–12 in a month, peaking in July at 312 mm12 in. Outside it, October to March is dry.
August is the hottest month at 25 °C77 °F and January the coldest at -3 °C27 °F; the mean stays below freezing from December to February. Annual rainfall totals about 1,304 mm51 in.
The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Seoul doesn't:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.